Publications

In this video Armando de la Cruz Cortes, lawyer and coordinator of Tequio Jurídico talks about the work of Tequio Jurídico and the threats faced by indigenous communities, principally the privatisation of communal land and mining concessions.

This publication focusses on strategies used by of mining companies in the Chontal region, of which the majority are Canadian. These strategies include deception and fraud, strategic power relationships with local, state and federal government, as well as the involvement of organised crime in some cases. View publication.

This publication addresses the mining industry in general – its stages, the different kinds of projects there are, and its social and environmental impacts. We explain what mining concessions are, and what implications they have for indigenous territories, including a summary of the existing concessions in the Chontal region. Finally, we give some recommendations for the protection of indigenous land faced with the threat of mining activity.

This is a compilation of articles and materials from various authors and organisations (including Tequio Jurídico) that we have compiled and distributed in communities, with the goal of providing information on the various threats to indigenous territory.

In 2015, Tequio Jurídico conducted research on the current situation of women’s agrarianrights and participation in agrarian assemblies in three Chontal communities – Santa Lucía Mecaltepec, San Miguel Chongos y Santa María Candelaria – to see if there were differences in how men and women participated, and therefore to what extent women were involved in the process of the defending their territories

From 2008 to 2011, Tequio Jurídico conducted training activities in women’s rights and gender violence prevention. This publication “Opening pathways towards community justice” is the conclusion of a project entitled: Indigenous Chontal Women Recovering Learnings for Community Justice and a Life Free from Violence. The goal of this project was to systematize the experiences of indigenous women in exercising their right to a life free from violence and to access to justice within their communities.

In 2014, the Rights of Women Pathway of Tequio Jurídico systematized the process of accompaniment of Chontal women from the year 2008. The goal of the systematizacion was to evaluate the exercise of the rights of women and their access to justice within their communities, identifying the changes that have occurred in their lifetimes, and the challenges involved in achieving a life free from violence.